FriendFeed
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 FriendFeed logo |
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| URL | friendfeed.com |
| Commercial? | Yes |
| Type of site | Social aggregator |
| Available language(s) | English |
| Owner | FriendFeed Inc. |
| Created by | Bret Taylor, Jim Norris, Paul Buchheit and Sanjeev Singh |
| Launched | February 2008 |
| Current status | Online |
FriendFeed is a social aggregator that consolidates the updates from social websites such as blog entries, social bookmarking websites, and social networks among others. This allows individuals using multiple social websites to have a consolidated stream of details on all their activities across these websites.
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[edit] Significance
The significance of FriendFeed, as elicited from the comments of those in the media focusing upon new social media phenomena, is that this service addresses the shortcomings of social media services which exclusively facilitate tracking of their own members' social media activities on that particular social media service, whereas FriendFeed provides the facility to track these activities (such as posting on blogs, Twitter and Flickr) across a broad range of different social networks.
[edit] Controversial repercussions
Rather than post comments on the social media/blogs/news sites which are being tracked, FriendFeed users are beginning to post their comments exclusively on the FriendFeed site, potentially starving the source site of traffic. As the popularity of FriendFeed increases, so does the risk that it becomes a potentially unstoppable ‘poacher’ of other social media networks' members, with inevitable monopolistic implications.
[edit] Supported services
A user can configure his or her FriendFeed account to aggregate content from the following services:
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[edit] Investment background
The founders are all former Google employees who were involved in the launch of such services as Gmail and Google Maps.
They include Paul Buchheit, Jim Norris, Sanjeev Singh and Bret Taylor.
Venture Capital agency Benchmark Capital are involved with the investment funding.
FriendFeed is based in Mountain View, California.
[edit] References
The following are news articles and blog postings concerning FriendFeed:
- All The Great Features of FriendFeed.
- Do you have to be in every conversation?
- FriendFeed Is This Years Twitter, But Why?
- FriendFeed vs SocialThing!
- FriendFeed: The Search Engine for Conversations
- FriendFeed: social glue filling the cracks of your web life.
- Friendfeed.com raises $5m VC
- The Conversation Has Left the Blogosphere
- The trouble with FriendFeed
- Thoughts On FriendFeed
- What does FriendFeed teach us? It's about the people stupid!
- What is FriendFeed?
